1, eat "five yellow" transit. This is a popular custom in Hangzhou and other places. In the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the old Hangzhou people called "five yellow month", because there are five kinds of food with the word "yellow" in this month on the market and named.

2, according to traditional custom, in the Dragon Boat Festival this day, Hangzhou people must eat Xionghuang wine, eel, yellow fish, cucumber, salted duck egg yolk, known as "eat five yellow". Of course, because of the toxicity of xionghuang, the general old Hangzhou people will use the Shaoxing yellow wine instead of xionghuang wine.